Jane’s Defence & Security – also known as IHS Jane’s – provides news and intelligence in the areas of defence, security, terrorism, and international affairs.

CSU’s subscription to Jane’s includes 12 products:

Country Risk Daily Report

Defence Industry

Defence Weekly

Intelligence Review

Intelligence Weekly

International Defence Review

Islamic Affairs Analyst

Missiles and Rockets

Navy International

Terrorism & Insurgency Monitor

Terrorism Watch Support

World Insurgency & Terrorism

You can access these products alphabetically or by subject area. You can access them individually or in two main modules. Material on defence equipment and technology is gathered together in the Defence: News Module, while material on security is gathered together in the Security: News Module.

You can search across all the products, or within one of the two modules, or within specific products.

World Insurgency & Terrorism provides intelligence on more than 250 global terrorist groups, with information including: threat assessment; aims and objectives; tactics, targets and areas of operation; and personnel, recruitment and rivalries.

JBI COnNECT+ - the Clinical Online Network of Evidence for Care and Therapeutics - is a subscription-only resource which is the main product of the Joanna Briggs Institute. It is available here directly in the JBI platform, but is also available in the Ovid platform (see also below).

JBI COnNECT+ works as an online gateway to a collection of evidence-based resources and tools designed to assist in the clinical decision-making process and to support best practice. These resources and tools allow users to engage in the "six essential steps of evidence-based health care": to search, appraise, summarise, embed, utilise, and evaluate evidence-based information.

JBI COnNECT+ comprises a series of sites on selected areas of health, referred to as "nodes". All nodes contain the same resources and programs, but the information included in each node is specific to that area of health. Alternatively, users can search for information from all nodes.

The nodes in JBI COnNECT+ include:

Nodes include:

Aged Care

Burns Care

Cancer Care

Chronic Disease

Diagnostic Imaging

Emergency and Trauma

General Medicine

Health Management and Assessment

Infection Control

Mental Health

Midwifery

Rehabilitation

Surgical Services

Wound Healing and Management

You can also limit your search to a particular publication type.

The publication types in JBI COnNECT+ include:

Publication types include:

Best Practice Information Sheets

Consumer Information Sheets

Evidence Summaries

Evidence Based Recommended Practices

Systematic Review Protocols

Systematic Reviews

Technical Reports

As well as the databases of EBP material, this resource also includes access to a number of EBP tools. These include:

If you want to access the EBP tools in JBI COnNECT+, it is suggested you go to JBI COnNECT+ on Ovid, which gives alternative access to JBI COnNECT+ via the Ovid platform. Once you have followed the instructions in the Ovid document Accessing JBI Tools for the first time, you should be able to access the EBP tools in both the Ovid and the JBI COnNECT+ platforms.

Final note: If you happen to use the JBI COnNECT+Logout button and then have difficulty getting full access again, you might need to close and re-open your browser.

The main product of the Joanna Briggs Institute, offering resources in evidence-based health care, available here on the Ovid platform, where it is titled The Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database. ...Show More

The main product of the Joanna Briggs Institute, offering resources in evidence-based health care, available here on the Ovid platform, where it is titled The Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database. ...Show More

The main product of the Joanna Briggs Institute, offering resources in evidence-based health care, available here on the Ovid platform, where it is titled The Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database. ...Show More

The main product of the Joanna Briggs Institute, offering resources in evidence-based health care, available here on the Ovid platform, where it is titled The Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database. ...Show More

The main product of the Joanna Briggs Institute, offering resources in evidence-based health care, available here on the Ovid platform, where it is titled The Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database. ...Show More

JBI COnNECT+ – the Clinical Online Network of Evidence for Care and Therapeutics – is a subscription-only resource which is the main product of the Joanna Briggs Institute.

Here, it is available via the Ovid interface, where it is titled The Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database.

JBI COnNECT+ works as an online gateway to a collection of evidence-based resources and tools designed to assist in the clinical decision-making process and to support best practice. These resources and tools allow users to engage in the "six essential steps of evidence-based health care": to search, appraise, summarise, embed, utilise, and evaluate evidence-based information.

JBI COnNECT+ comprises a series of sites on selected areas of health, referred to as "nodes". All nodes contain the same resources and programs, but the information included in each node is specific to that area of health. You can limit your search to a particular node, or you can search for information from all nodes.

The nodes in JBI COnNECT+ include:

Nodes include:

Aged Care

Burns Care

Cancer Care

Chronic Disease

Diagnostic Imaging

Emergency and Trauma

General Medicine

Health Management and Assessment

Infection Control

Mental Health

Midwifery

Rehabilitation

Surgical Services

Wound Healing and Management

You can also limit your search to a particular publication type.

The publication types in JBI COnNECT+ include:

Publication types include:

Best Practice Information Sheets

Consumer Information Sheets

Evidence Summaries

Evidence Based Recommended Practices

Systematic Review Protocols

Systematic Reviews

Technical Reports

As well as the databases of EBP material, this resource also includes access to a number of EBP tools. These include:

For alternative access to the JBI resources via Ovid, and for access to various help and information resources, please see Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Resources on Ovid, which is customised for CSU users. (Note: you can search from this page but the results will be presented in the Ovid interface.)

JBI Sumari is designed to assist researchers and practitioners in fields such as health, social sciences and humanities to appraise and synthesise evidence of feasibility, appropriateness, meaningfulness and effectiveness; and to conduct economic evaluations of activities and interventions.

Users need to login to JBI Sumari with an Ovid Personal Account, or create a Personal Account if they don’t already have one.

Project owners can invite other users to participate in a project as a secondary reviewer. Invitations to participate in a Project do not include CSU proxy server details and invitees must follow detailed step-by-instructions in order to accept an invitation.

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is no longer available to CSU staff and students. Thomson Reuters have moved JCR to a new product called Incites, to which CSU does not subscribe. Researchers seeking journal rankings can use other products such as SJR (SCImago Journal & Country Rank), Scopus Journal Analyzer and Google Scholar Metrics.

For assistance on accessing any of these resources, please contact a Faculty Liaison Librarian. You can also find information on these Library Resource guides:

Journals@Ovid is a database of hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies.

These journals are available in full-text by subscription, and CSU Library does not subscribe to all of them. So the results of searching Journals@Ovid will include a mix of citation-only, and full-text, results.

CSU Library does subscribe to the full-text of more than 400 Journals@Ovid journals, mainly in the subject areas of medicine, nursing, psychology, and sports science.

These full-text journals are also available in the database CSU Full Text Journals@Ovid, listed in the CSU databases lists as Journals@Ovid CSU Full Text Subscribed, which is effectively a subset of Journals@Ovid.

Ovid lists this database as CSU Full Text Journals@Ovid. It is a subset of the database Journals@Ovid and, as such, contains the more than 400 journals to which CSU subscribes in full-text. This means that all your results will be immediately available in full-text.

These journals are mainly in the subject areas of

behavioural & social sciences

clinical medicine

health professions

life & biomedical sciences

nursing

pharmacy

psychology

public health.

The database is particularly strong in the areas of psychology and nursing.

Archive of journal back-files (does not include current issues). CSU's subscription includes 31 titles on the Health Sciences and 22 titles on Health Policy. ...Show More

Multi-subject including History & Politics: African history; American history; ancient history and classical studies; anthropology; archaeology; comparative politics; eighteenth-century studies; ethnohistory; history of science & technology; history teaching; international affairs; military history; Pacific affairs; political science; political research and theory; population studies; world politics.

Archive of journal back-files (does not include current issues). The Arts & Sciences I - IX Collections include hundreds of relevant publications. ...Show More

Archive of journal back-files (does not include current issues). CSU's subscription includes 12 Library Science titles and 14 Bibliography titles (with some duplication between categories). ...Show More

Multi-subject including Legal Studies.

Archive of journal back-files (does not include current issues). CSU's subscription includes 73 Law titles. ...Show More

JSTOR is a searchable archive of full-text journals, but it is an archive of back-files only.

JSTOR DOES NOT CONTAIN THE CURRENT ISSUES OF JOURNALS. Each journal publisher has determined what years will be available within the database. In some instances publishers have excluded only the current year. In other cases the publisher might have excluded the current and preceding two, three or four years.

But the database contains literally hundreds of full-text journals, some of which are available over quite lengthy periods.

Within JSTOR, CSU has access to all 10 of the Arts & Sciences "collections", plus the Life Sciences "collection", as follows:

Arts & Sciences I. Includes 119 titles in 15 disciplines, including economics, history, political science, and sociology, plus other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. Also contains titles in ecology, mathematics, and statistics.

Arts & Sciences II. Includes 124 titles and builds on the Arts & Sciences I Collection. Also offers core journals in several new disciplines, such as archaeology, classics, and African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Slavic studies.

Arts & Sciences III (150 titles). Includes journals in languages and literature, as well as titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture.

Arts & Sciences IV (112 titles). Has a strong focus on business, education, and law, and also includes titles in psychology and public policy and administration.

Arts & Sciences VI (120 titles). Extends JSTOR's coverage of the social sciences, with clusters focused on economics, education, linguistics, political science, and area studies.

Arts & Sciences VII (183 titles). Specialises in history, political science, sociology, art and art history, and language and literature. Also includes titles in health policy.

Arts & Sciences VIII (140 titles). Broadens JSTOR's coverage of core humanities disciplines including history, language & literature, art & art history, and education. This collection also includes a group of rare 19th and early 20th century American Art periodicals digitized as part of a special project undertaken with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. This collection also includes journals in philosophy, classical studies, and music.

Arts & Sciences IX (150 titles by end of 2012). Widens JSTOR’s coverage of business and the social sciences, including archaeology, anthropology, sociology, business, economics, population studies, and political science.

Arts & Sciences X. (125 titles). Has broad coverage of business and the social sciences. Specific subjects covered include sociology, education, public policy & administration, and the history of science, technology, and medicine.

Life Sciences (160 titles). Merges the two previous collections of Biological Sciences and Health & General Sciences. Spans more than 340 years of science history and research in the sciences. Disciplines include aquatic science, botany, developmental & cell biology, ecology, paleontology, and zoology.

The Judicial Information Research System (JIRS) is an online database and research tool developed by the Judicial Commission of NSW for judicial officers, the legal profession, the courts, and government agencies involved in the justice system.

It contains case law, legislation, sentencing principles, and sentencing statistics and other reference material. It is designed to communicate changes to the criminal law in NSW.

Primary legal reference material includes the full-text of judgments from various NSW courts, plus the full-text of NSW and Commonwealth Acts and Regulations.

Secondary legal material includes case summaries, commentary, and online publications such as the Judicial Officers’ Bulletin.

These primary and secondary sources, and statistics, are available from the left menu in JIRS.

The use of JIRS is subject to the following disclaimer:

“To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Judicial Commission of New South Wales, the State of New South Wales, the Crown, the Government of New South Wales and any authors, consultants, editors and other persons involved in the preparation and dissemination of the information in this database give no express or implied warranty of any kind with respect to the information in this database and expressly disclaim all liability (whether by statute, negligence or other tort, in contract or otherwise) to any person with respect to it and any consequences arising from its use or any reliance on it. Without limiting the generality of the above, to the fullest extent permitted by the law, none of the persons named above shall be responsible for any liability with respect to any of the other named persons above. No person should act specifically on the basis of any information in this database without taking and considering professional advice on it.”

Just Search is provided by the Law and Justice Foundation of NSW. It allows you to browse and search an online database of justice research and other resources.

Full text versions of the Foundation's research reports

covering research, conducted since 1998, under the Access to Justice and Legal Needs Program.

Abstracts of other research reports from Australia and around the world

The majority of this research is Australian-based but some international literature is included. The majority of the research is from 2000 onwards. Links to the full text of the material are included wherever possible.

Abstracts of plain language law resources

These are abstracts of plain language guides to the law and community legal education programs. Most resources are from NSW and from 2001 onwards. Links to the full text of the material are included wherever possible.

Listings of "access to justice organisations" in NSW

This is not a directory of legal assistance services. Only peak organisations in NSW which are active in access to justice for disadvantaged groups are included.

The Just Search screen also includes a Site Search facility which can be used to search the Foundation's website including Grants, Justice Awards, Publications, Legal links, and the Legal Information Program.

N.B. Terms and Conditions of Use

These resources are for CSU staff and students only.Do NOT give your username and password to any other person.

These electronic resources are for non-commercial use in your personal research or study only. Users do not have permission to systematically download or copy large amounts of these resources, thereby creating their own databases; or to distribute these resources to third parties. For further information on the terms and conditions by which users can access these electronic resources, refer to the terms and conditions information on the electronic resource itself or contact the Library.